#programme

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence? ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#between #how #i #i love #idea

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#every #global #got #i #issues

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#been #changed #long #long words #names

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#broadcaster #delivers #knowledge #matter #programmes

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#bbc #load #old #produces #programmes

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#course #ended #finished #having #just

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. ↗

— George Osborne

#decisions #economy #foundations #government #programmes